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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Blessed, Men

  "Past and Present". Book by Thomas Carlyle, April 1843.

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• Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Acorns, Birth, Breeze

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Years, Two, Fame

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.132

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• The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sentimental, Sentiments, Mortals

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Blessed, Voice

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Suffering Pain, Pain And Suffering, Strive

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293

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• It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Blessed, Heart, Greatness

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• To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Men, Muhammad

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• Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Reading, Biographies

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Law, Competition

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.87

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• Affectation is the product of falsehood.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Products, Falsehood

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.213

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• What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Men, Needs

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• The age of miracles is forever here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Miracle, Forever, Age

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.151

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Work, Blessed

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, World, Almighty

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.81

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• Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Doe, Accidents

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

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• All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Grows, Spread

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.118

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• Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doe, Way, Let Me

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• Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Battle, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Tears, Behinds

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• The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Science, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

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• Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Men, Cities

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• Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Simple, Knack, Illusion

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.179

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